Quotes About Cycle

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

Life is a circle. The end of one journey is the beginning of the next.

That is how a farmer walks across the soil in spring--and later, in summer, the traces of his steps are obscured by the billowing richness of the wheat he once sowed.

I just want to stop the cycle of killing," Freddy said. "It isn't necessary. It isn't even necessary that people eat meat. And it certainly isn't necessary that people make war on people. I'm doing my small part to change the species." "Umm," said Howard.

You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.

It is a great priviledge to hear from the mouth of an initiate what struggles we are ensnared in and what the meaning is of the sacrifices we are required to make before veiled images. Even if we should hear something evil, it would still be a blessing to see our task as something beyond a senseless cycle of recurrence.

Die Menschenordnung gleicht dem Kosmos darin, daß sie von Zeit zu Zeiten, um sich von neuem zu gebären, ins Feuer tauchen muß.

Irgendwie drängt sich auch dem ganz einfachen Gemüt die Ahnung auf, daß sein Leben in einen ewigen Kreislauf geschaltet, und daß der Tod des einzelnen gar kein so bedeutungsvolles Ereignis ist.

It is easier to go into the battle in the midst of such beauties of nature than when surrounded by a dead and cold winter landscape. Somehow, it comes to one quite simply that one's existence is part of an eternal circuit, and that the death of a single individual is no great matter.

war doesn't end war any more than a heroin fix ends a heroin addiction.

There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.

Ultimately, the goal is to be on an annual cycle - releasing a film every year.

For exercise, I tend to like the outdoors. In Paris, I rent a bike in the street and cycle around, and in L.A. I live up in the hills so I go hiking a lot. I like to stay fit by being generally active.

In Paris, I rent a bike in the street and cycle around, and in L.A. I live up in the hills so I go hiking a lot.

What happened in Snowtown was repeated many times in history, in a big scale and a small scale.

It's easy to let ourselves off the hook and say, 'Oh, I would never own slaves.' Because this is in the DNA of this country, like we saw in Ava DuVernay's film '13th.' The cycle keeps repeating itself.

Hunting is part of a cycle of life that repeats. Life. Death. Life. Death. Death is part of life.

The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.

The narratives in which you're born have a fierce pattern of repetition.

Even the coolest jobs get stultifying with repetition, and the only way to break that cycle is to bring another job into the mix.

The young is always there to replace what we call the old. That's the process, even in nature.

All states and nations, however great, bloom for a season and are replaced.

Women, post-menopause, go back to how they were before they started menstruating, and there's this great freedom in a woman's life when she reaches the end of that reproductive cycle, and that most women come into their own strength, the same strength they had as a girl.

We found out that, contrary to what many people thought, in the immune system, genes can change during the life cycle of the individual.